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How Foundations Can Be the Risk Takers They Want to Be

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06/25/2014

... recently to a nonprofit executive director describe to a group of grant makers and nonprofit peers the innovative hires and new programs his organization had made, I was filled with ... offered his last piece...

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Arcus Foundation

Membership Snapshot

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05/2023

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Three Easy Questions to Get Past the ‘Reflexive No’

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02/18/2016

... Director, Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation Funders , large and small, often seek ways to stretch grant ... to take advantage of a program. What we can strive for, in essence, is more inclusive...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

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With the End Near, Atlantic Makes a Big Move on Racial Justice

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11/01/2016

... Justice Race has been getting a lot of attention from funders lately, but Atlantic Philanthropies has been a leader in this area for a number of years now. Back when Gara ... attacking structural racism had to...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Supports New Service to Aggregate Life Sciences Preprints

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04/18/2017

... of preprint servers has come to the attention of funders . Concerns have been raised regarding issues related ... permanence, and consistency across these services. In February 2017, ASAPbio received a $1...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Science

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Palau to Sign National Marine Sanctuary Into Law; Bloomberg and Tiffany-supported Global Ocean Legacy Campaign Win

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10/22/2015

... one of the world's largest protected areas of ocean in the Pacific island nation's waters. President Tommy E. ... with Pew and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is working with maritime...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Public Policy

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Oak Foundation

Trinity Church Wall Street Appoints Managing Director of Leadership Development and Managing Director of Mission Real Estate Development

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07/29/2019

... Divinity School of the Pacific, an Episcopal seminary in Berkeley, CA, that entered into an alliance with Trinity in March. He will oversee programs with global partners in...

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Trinity Church Philanthropies

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The Next Five Years: Three Reasons We Must Adapt

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05/01/2018

... Director, Open Road Alliance. This article was the final in a four-part series originally published in GrantCraft ... initiatives scale, but we rarely scale our own operations. Funders...

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The Weight of Privilege in Crisis

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08/19/2020

The Weight of Privilege in Crisis By: Donita Volkwijn, Manager, Knowledge Management, ... Advisors The world has undergone a tectonic shift in the last six months. Inequity that has plagued our society for...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Markle Foundation Among Those Stepping Up To The Worker Retraining Challenge

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02/06/2018

... were at risk of being automated? You might if you lived in Sweden . That's because most Swedish workers who are ... run by industries and unions that retrain laid off workers in skills that are still...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Salesforce.org And United Way Are Teaming Up To Change Corporate Giving

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02/27/2018

... And United Way Are Teaming Up To Change Corporate Giving In order to magnify their philanthropic impact, many corporate employees donate through company charity programs . Most of these are straightforward and...

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Technology

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Warhol Foundation Comes Through Again for Texas Arts Orgs

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07/11/2018

... with emergency funds after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, working with local organizations to give grants to museums, ... web site , its program director said “that in the immediate aftermath of the hurricanes...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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Arts

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U.S. Cities Will Be Able to Compete for Funding From JPMorgan

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09/12/2018

... project Wednesday geared toward boosting economic growth in as many as 30 cities across the U.S. The five-year ... plans to invest, through public-private partnerships, in places where it can address...

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Community Development

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Supports UC San Diego to Study Crohn’s Disease

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05/11/2019

... Soumita Das, Larry Smarr and Jürgen Schulze—researchers in diverse disciplines at the University of California San ... for Crohn’s disease patients through $4.7 million in new grants from The Leona M. and...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Seth Pinsky Named New Chief Executive of the 92nd Street Y

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09/29/2019

... just before the height of the 2008 financial crisis. In that role, he negotiated on behalf of the mayor for the ... location and on the renovation of the Kings Theater in Brooklyn from a vacant and...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Names Chun Lai as Chief Investment Officer After Donna Dean Announces Retirement

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10/16/2019

... since 2001, after joining as Director of Investments in 1995. During her tenure, the Foundation's endowment has ... once Dean retires. Lai joined The Rockefeller Foundation in 1996 and currently serves as...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Announces the 2023 Sloan Research Fellows

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02/15/2023

... most prestigious awards available to young researchers, in part because so many past Fellows have gone on to become towering figures in science. Renowned physicists Richard Feynman and Murray ... modern game...

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